No charge

In April, the European Parliament lifted the parliamentary immunity of Jürgen Creutzmann, a German liberal MEP, at the request of the public prosecutor in Frankenthal, in Rhineland-Palatinate.

It was alleged that the 67-year-old Creutzmann was the cause of a serious injury to another driver in a road accident last year. According to the prosecutor, he had crossed the path of another car at an intersection (Creutzmann kreuzte at a Kreuzung). Last week that decision was rendered moot: the public prosecutor announced that it was not pursuing the charges after Creutzmann, who said he regretted the accident, agreed to pay €2,000 to a charity.